Five Oromo Women Athletes Battle for Gold Medal Today at 20:05 UK Times

August 10, 2012 (Ayyaantuu.com) – Five Oromo women athletes out of 15, in the whole world, have qualified to compete for 5000m gold medal today in 2012 London Olympics at 20:05 London times or 15:05 EDT in US or 22:05 Finfinnee times. While Tirunesh Dibaba, Meseret Defar and Gelete Burka run for Ethiopia, Shitaye Eshete and Tejitu Daba will represent Bahrain. Almensh Belete ranked 19th in the first run off and did not qualify. Almensh is a citizen of Belgium. Only those who ranked 1-15 have qualified.

Tirunesh Dibaba is expected to repeat her Beijing long-distance double by adding the 5,000 gold medal to the 10,000 title she won a week ago.

The world record holder from Ethiopia’s most likely challenger is Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya, who was third in the 10,000 last Friday and is ranked No. 1 in the world this year over 5,000 meters.

Tirunesh will clash also with former olympic winner and world champion Meseret Defar at the 5000 m. Also in the race is former top miler Gelete Burka.

Tirunesh Dibaba’s sister Genzebe had been seen as a favorite for the 1,500 but suffered an injury in the heats. In her absence, Abeba Aregawi carries Ethiopia’s hopes for a first 1,500 gold at 20:55 London times today.

Oromians medals so far

Tirunesh Dibaba

Gold in women’s 10,00m

Tiki Gelana

Gold in women’s Marathon

Tariku Bekele

Bronze in men’s 10,000m

Sofia Assefa

Bronze in women’s 3000m steeplechase

Standing below is based on each athlete’s time mark during qualification heats. The battle will begin at 20:05 today.

Stop this kind of childish reporting. The athlets are particpating under the flag of Ethiopia and as far as I know no one has declared otherwise. In fact Tirunesh went all the way to declare that her gold medal belongs to all Ethiopians. I am an Oromo nationalist and will not stoop down for any misinformation. We do not even need to partition this issue. Time will come when they fell so proud that they can claim otherwise.

abdii,I agree with Boonaa no one of them claim that they are oromos why should we push them to be or to think like they are oromos it’s not working like that my brother.mee qananniisaa laali maal fiddan jadhee garaan keesssan haa kutatuu intal tigree heerumee.amma kaa diirqqiidhaan qabnaaree? hiintaa’u gaafa miidhaa ummata keegnaa isaaniit dhagaayamee haadebii’anii.

Do you understand what it means 5 out of 15 are Oromos? That is 30%. Yes, you are reading it correctly. It is 30%. This tells us that, 30% of the world’s most qualified athlets us Oromos.

Do you realy understand what this means?
From about 7 billion people of this world, the Oromo makes only 40 millions. But, they are 30% of the most qualified athlets.

Oromian medias need to work harder and harder. Tell the the whole world, that, Oromos are the best and the most qualified athlets of this world. Tell the whole world, that, Oromos are the first to invent democratic model of governance, Gadaa System. Tell the whole world, that, the qualified Oromian have contributed a lot to humanity. Tell the whole world, that, this great nation is currently being abused by the crule Abysinians who never had any elected ruler in their history of 3000 years. Tell the whole world, that, the victrory of all these athlets is the victory of Oromians. Tell the whole world, that, the abuse of Oromian victory by the barbaric crule rulers of abysinia must end. This is the victory of Oromians, not of Abysinians.

No doubt! There shall come a day, when Oromians shall celebrate their victory as a free and independent nation.

Boona , first of all you need to spell your name correctly before being Oromo nationalist.
Secondly, if you wish to be Oromo, you welcome because we never disrespect any human being who lives with us.
Farther more, you need know:
What is Ethiopia?
Who is Ethiopian?
Since when Ethiopia included Oromo?

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